The Blocks World (http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/shrdlu/) was over 36 years ago, and was a GREAT demonstration of what can be done with natural language. It handled a wide variety of items, albeit with a very limited environment.
Currently MIT is doing work with robitics that uses the same types of systems, where they can talk to a grasper robot and tell it to pick up or move the yellow thing, and stuff like that.
It is limited to its small environment, but that was also over 36 years ago.
Today, we sould be able to take something like this and expand upwards. The harder part of the equation for a complex system like this is actually the robotics end, and image recognition tasks.
In some form or another we are going to HAVE to have a natural language interface, either a translation program that can convert our english to the machine understandable form, or a simplified form of english that is trivial for a person to quickly understand and write.
Humans use natural speech to communicate and to have an effective AGI that we can itneract with, it will have to have easy communication with us. That has been a critcal problem with all software since the beginning, a difficulty in the human computer interface.
I go further to propose that as much knowledge information should be stored in easily recognizable natural language as well, only devolving into more complex forms where the cases warrant it, such as complex motor-sensor data sets, and some lower logic levels.
James Ratcliff
Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
James Ratcliff wrote:
> Not necessarily childrens language, as tehy have their own problems and
> often use the wrong words and rules of grammar, but a simplified
> english, a reduced rule set.
> Something like no compound sentences for a start. I believe most
> everything can be written without compound sentences, and that would
> greatly reduce the processing complexity,
> and anaphora resolution as a part of the language rules, so if you
> reference something in one place it will stay the same throughout the
> section.
>
> Its not quite as natural, but could be understood simply enough by
> humans as well as computers.
> One problem I have with all of this, is the super-flowery writing styles
> of cramming as many words and complex topics all into one sentence.
This is a question directed at this whole thread, about simplifying
language to communicate with an AI system, so we can at least get
something working, and then go from there....
This rationale is the very same rationale that drove researchers into
Blocks World programs. Winograd and SHRDLU, etc. It was a mistake
then: it is surely just as much of a mistake now.
Richard Loosemore.
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